You know, I’m often amazed at some people’s belief that our Founders had NO IMAGINATION WHATSOEVER.

I mean, it’s easy for me (and the idiots) to imagine warp drive, laser guns, light sabres and the transporter, right? One day we may actually have some of these — we already have “communicators,” (cell phones) and “medical diagnostic tables” (MRI machines), do we not? Apparently, though, these same idiots do not believe that George Washington, while fighting a battle with a musket that took two minutes to load, ever said to himself, “Gee, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to shoot more than one bullet at a time before I had to reload?”

LOL great post. This reminds me of something I read about years ago that turned out to be an urban myth but also gets the point across effectively. A retired Air Force Col. while on the board of directors for the Boy Scouts was interviewed by phone by some bimbo from the BBC about an upcoming annual jamboree. She asked the colonel about the events that would take place, and he explained that they planned softball and basketball tournaments, seminars on conservation and survival skills in the wilderness, as well as target and skeet shooting. The reporterette interrupted him and asked, “you mean with real guns?”, to which he replied, “Absolutely”. “Isn’t that dangerous?” she asked, as she was becoming unnerved. The colonel explained that the kids will go through training and take safety courses with NRA-certified instructors. He tried to assure this ditz that none of the boys would so much as lay a finger on any of the guns until they know and can demonstrate how to handle them safely and responsibly. The reporter then stated that “when you teach a child to shoot a gun, he becomes a potential killer!” To which the colonel quickly replied, “and when you first learned about sex, you became a potential prostitute, but you haven’t turned any tricks yet, have you?”, click, hello? HELLO?

Gee, wouldnt it be nice to be able to shoot more than one bullet at a time before I had to reload? Just shows once again necessity is the mother of invention. The operating theories behind things taken for granted today such as TV, air conditioning, automatic transmissions, wireless communication that led to cell phone technology were understood over 100 yrs ago. I took decades of trial and error and scientific breakthroughs to make these things technically and economically feasible.

The truth though is that the intent was to have citizens armed with the same weaponry that would likely be used against them by a tyrannical government. So it doesn’t matter what arms were around then versus now ... as a free man and a citizen of this country, I should have access to the same arms used by my government.

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posted on 01/10/2013 6:15:51 AM PST
by spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)

“The intent of the 2A was to create an army that was well armed and well trained in their own weapons.”

The intent was so that we would remain free.

“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” (James Madison, The Federalist Papers #46 at 243-244)

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States” (Noah Webster in `An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution’, 1787, a pamphlet aimed at swaying Pennsylvania toward ratification, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at 56(New York, 1888))

“As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.” (Tench Coxe in `Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution’ under the Pseudonym `A Pennsylvanian’ in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789 at 2 col. 1)

“Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people” (Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788)

“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials.” (George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426)

And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants” (Thomas Jefferson in a letter to William S. Smith in 1787. Taken from Jefferson, On Democracy 20, S. Padover ed., 1939)

Wow. I wonder if Cuomo knows that? Apparently, he thinks the Second Amendment was included to make deer hunters happy.

Does he know that when the government comes for us, for whatever reason (disagreeing with their ideology), THEY will have assault weapons? Has anybody forgotten the picture of the gun in the face of little Elian Gonzales — a CHILD? That really happened; it’ll happen again.

Here’s the thing: critics of armed citizens say that it will avail them naught in the face of a military which sides with a tyrannical government. The fact is, in the event of a civil uprising, many or most members of the military would be on the side of the liberty-seeking rebels (that would be us) and against the tyrants like Obama and the Obamatons. Even if the military was split, the liberty-lovers private citizens, who have a lot more guns, would have a decided advantage against the statist citizens who don’t have nearly as many.

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